This website uses cookies primarily for visitor analytics. Certain pages will ask you to fill in contact details to receive additional information. On these pages you have the option of having the site log your details for future visits. Indicating you want the site to remember your details will place a cookie on your device. To view our full cookie policy, please click here. You can also view it at any time by going to our Contact Us page.

PI (PROFIBUS & PROFINET International)

Haid-und-Neu-Str. 7
Karlsruhe
76131
GERMANY

Telephone : +49 721 9658 590
Fax : +49 721 9658 589
Email : pi@profibus.com
Web : www.profibus.com


Article archive for PI (PROFIBUS & PROFINET International);

F-Host certification 19 December 2008

Certification is a decisive factor contributing to user acceptance of supplied safety solutions. Nowadays, safety-related field devices (F-slave/F-device) communicate via the Profisafe protocol, and their proper functioning is verified by means of a certification test. Certification of Profibus DP slaves and Profinet IO devices has been an established practice for five years. Now, PI (Profibus & Profinet) is also providing certification for safety-related hosts (F-Hosts). ...

Article image
10 years of Profisafe 05 December 2008

Beginning in Autumn of 1998, PI (Profibus & Profinet International) achieved a milestone in industrial automation with its establishment of Profisafe. Impressive proof of this lies in the growth in the number of installed Profisafe nodes and systems. So the total number of Profisafe nodes increased by the end of 2007 to 410,000. For the year 2008, PI again expects growth of the installed base of approx. 80%. ...

Article image
Transparency up to the process level 11 September 2008

To meet demands for consistent cost reduction and higher system availability in the future, Profibus and Profinet International have initiated a working group of manufacturers several years ago, to make the “final yard” in a continuous automation structure more communicative and intelligent. ...